Method of and apparatus for transmitting intelligence



B. PROSER. METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING INTELLIGENCE.

APPLICATION FILEP MAR. 22, I919- Patented NOV- 18 2 SHEETS-SHE I.

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BERNARD raosnn, or BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING INTELLIGENCE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented. Nov. 18, 1919.

' Application filed March 22, 1919. Serial No. 284,468.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, BERNARD Pnosnn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore, State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Methods of and Apparatus for Transmitting Intelligence, of which the following isa specification.

This invention relates to a method of, and an apparatus for transmitting intelligence through a distance to permit the reproduction of a picture or other design by mechanical means.

The invention has been designed primarily for the purpose of enabling a newspaper offiee to transmit to a distant otlice certain features of a picture or other design, and in such a manner that such distant otfice can readily reproduce the picture or other design by mechanical means. It will be understood, of course, that various other applications of the invention will readily suggest themselves, and in order that the invention may be better understood, reference is had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification.

In the drawing,

Figure 1 is a plan view of a fragment of the apparatus used at the sending station;

Fig. 2 is an enlarged sectional view thereof, and

Fig. 3 is an elevation of a fragment of the apparatus employed at the receiving or distant station.

The apparatus at the sending station is in the nature of a printing apparatus a plurality of vertically positioned reciprocatory lungers or type bars 5 being shown bearing at one end a printing character 6. These type bars are located beneath a support 7 on which is placed a sheet 8 to receive the impressions of the printing characters when the type bars are moved upwardly. Thus far the apparatus resembles a typewriter. To the lower end of each type bar is connected an actuating lever 9. The free ends of these levers extend into the path of selector and actuating pins 10, there being a pin for each lever. The pins are set closely together in one compact mass, and a suitable means is provided for supporting the same in this manner, and also to permit a reciprocatory movement or working stroke. The upper ends of the pins are normally all flush and at the same level, and therefore the group of pins forms here a fiat surface.

The selectors are controlled and actuated. by a pattern which is a cut or other reproduction of the picture or other design to be duplicated at the distant oflice,such cut haring raised lines, so that when it is pressed down on the bank of selector pins 10, the high portions of the cut depress certain pins and thereby actuate the levers 9 oi corresponding type bars "5, the latter thereupon rising and impressing their printing characters on the sheet 8. It will be understood, of course, that the selector pins are grouped in exactly the same way the type bars are grouped, and hence it the selector pin at the lower left hand cornerof the group is depressed, the correspondingly positioned type bar makes an impression, this type bar hearing the printing character 1; The same arrangement is true with respect to all the type bars and the selector pins, and hence it will be seen that the printing characters denote certain predetermined points in the field of selector pins. The selector pins project a short distance above a base plate l1. and this distance will correspond to the height of the raised lines on the cut so that the. latter cannot be pressed down farenough to bring the low places into action and thus depress improper selector ins.

The sheet 8 now contains a series of indeiz numbers which may be transmitted to the distant .oflice by mailing the sheet, or by just telegraphing or otherwise communicating the numbers to such oflice. The distant office then proceeds to reproduce the grouping of the selector pins 10 which had been actuated at the sending ofiice. This is done by the apparatus shown in Fig. 3. This apparatus is similar to a typewriter. A group of type bars is shown at 12 these being arranged in exactly the same manner as the selector pins 10 and their printing characters being a dot. Each type bar is operated by a key 13 in any suitable manner, these keys being numbered. The type bars 12 operate on a sheet 1 1. This apparatus is practically a duplication of the apparatus at the sending ofiice, the keys 13 corresponding to the selector ins 10. The operator upon receiving the 11st of numbers now proceeds to operate the keys 13 called for by such numbers, and as each key is depressed, a corresponding type bar 12 is elevated to make a dot on the sheet 14:. As the grouping of the type bars 12 corresponds to the grouping of the selector pins 10, it will be evident that there is noW reproduced on the sheet 14, by means of dots, the same figure that Was impressed on the bank of selector pins 10. "This figure Will be a faithful re production of the figure on the cut by Which the selector pins were, operated, and the sheet may noW be removed and after being touched up by the artist it is ready for reproduction by any of the usual methods employed in newspaper ofilces.

I claim:

1. A method of transmitting intelligence for the graphic reproduction of a design at a distant station, consisting in producing at the sending station by means of a pattern of the design index characters designating predetermined points in said design, and providing at the distant station a mechanism for producing the design made up of points, the index characters produced at the sending station being communicated to the distant station to serve as a key for operating the aforesaid mechanism at the distant station.

2. A method of transmitting intelligence for the graphic reproduction of a design at a distant station, consisting in providing a plurality of printing elements for producing index characters designating predetermined points in a design, and operating the same by a sele tor mea s controlled by a pattern of the design, and providing at the distant station a mechanism for producing a design made up of points, the index characters produced at the sending station being communicated to the distant station to serve as a key for operating the aforesaid mechanism at the distant station.

3. A method of transmitting intelligence for the graphic reproduction of a design at a distant station, consisting in providing a plurality of printing elements for producing index characters designating predetermined points in a design, and operating the same by a selector mechanism consisting of a group of depressible pins, the design to be reproduced being made up of raised surfaces to serve as a pattern for operating the selector pins, and providing at the distant station a mechanism for producing a design made up of points, the index characters pro duced at the sending station being communicated to the distant station to serve as a key for operating the aforesaid mechanism at the distant station.

l. An apparatus for transmitting intelligence for the graphic reproduction of a design at a distant station, comprising a plurality of printing elements bearing index characters designating predetermined points in a design, and depressible selector pins for operating the printing elements, said pins being arranged in a compact group and set closely together With their upper ends flush, and adapted to be operated by the raised surfaces of a pattern of the design.

5. An apparatus for transmitting intelligence for the graphic reproduction of a design at a distant station, comprising a plurality of printing elements bearing index characters designating predetermined points in a design, and depressible selector pins for operating the printing elements adapted to be operated by the raised surfaces of a pattern of the design.

In testimony Whereof I afiix my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

BERNARD PROSER.

Vitnesses HOWARD D. ADAMS, E. VVALToN BREWINGTON. 

